Vintage shots from days gone by!

The jumping wolverines were particularly bad that year.

 

and we should do what with your opinion?

 

Nice shot of a '61 Futura there.

-Dave

 

Well, Dick. I've never reported anybody in my three years on the HAMB, but I think that fella doesn't understand the HAMB rules. For one, no name-calling. This HAMB thread is a place for objective commentary about VINTAGE subjects, as they WERE, not as issues stand in 2011. I feel it was a cheap shot.

As far as I am concerned, it's just like people complaining about pictures of dead horses during the 1906 earthquake. Silly but, moreover, simply an inappropriate, socio-political interjection into an otherwise objective and respectful thread of conversation about HISTORY, not the way things stand in 2011.

 

Now, Boys.....everyone calm down. THis is NOT a forum for your personal beliefs regarding the moral validity of hunting. Especially when the game is not an elephant. I hear that elephants are not very tasty or tender. So, if you do not consume any meat products, good for you. But, if you enjoy a steak or burger....where do think that meat comes from? Answer...."Uh, the supermarket".
Jeesh!!
Let's all chill out and get back to the subject....
Vintage shots from days gone by

 

As you say, FlatheadGuy, that was my point. We don't need people popping up with cheap shots out of the blue. If they familiarize themselves with HAMB rules -- and this thread from Page 1 --they might be in tune. Nobody disses anybody, except to correct an incorrect statement about engines, trannies, etc.

Thanks FlatheadGuy. Sorry for losing my temper. BACK to the regular buisiness of cool old vintage material.

 

Photograph of Don Burtis and first car
Date:
1934
Contributing Institution:
Sutter County Library



Photograph of Don & Bill Burtis on toy airplane
Date:
1933
Contributing Institution:
Sutter County Library

 

Book illustrations thanks to aelphbet.


Ever wonder what Dr. Seuss did BEFORE writing all of those
famous and cleverly worded children's books? Well, in 1939
his Seven Lady Godivas was aimed at adult readers and
flopped miserably. That his books often tended to wind around
socio-political messages seems rather more obvious than, say,
Louis Carroll's earlier work (which, I think, probably served as
one inspiration for Seuss' material). That his books contained
criticism of the adult world and its philosophical underpinnings
never seemed to bother parents, especially those of a liberal
bent. So, down on adults, the good doctor made his fortunes
writing and drawing for the kids. Wikipedia states that a well-
known Seuss barb was, "Adults are obsolete children, and to
hell with them."



End-pages art thanks to Xanga.

 

Cover art thanks to WeTooWereChildren.





Informal portrait of Theodor Geisel Seuss shot in 1957 by Al Ravenna, photographer
for the NY World Telegram and the NY Sun. Photo thanks to Wikipedia and the U.S.
Library of Congress, Photographs & Prints Division.

 

Wow....Dr. Suess looks a little bit like Mr. Rodgers.

 

Well okay then.

Holy hell, 6 million hits and climbing.

My pop with a home made garden tractor.

 

1957 Second Grade in San Diego auditorium assembly with Dr. Suess (I assume) reading "something" I think it was Cat in the Hat ... what a trip. He lived close by.

 

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Well I had heard that Dr Seuss was well versed {in more ways than one}







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Hiya Swade .... Joey Chitwood (on two wheels)?

 

Vintage home made jump box, gas motor drives generator with jumper cable leads

 

I think so, found those slides in my girlfriends dad's old house, was taken at the Erie Co. Fair in Hamburg,NY

 

girlfriend's dad's gas station

 

and one of the best letters I have ever read, we believe this was my girlfriend's grandparents when they were first dating. The snowplow guy in my earlier post is her grandfather

 

These are great!

 

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Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 &#8211; February 29, 1980), born Gillette Elvgren,
was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren
was one of the more important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth
century.
Today he is best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow. Elvgren
studied at the American Academy of Art.....

Above Info garnered from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Elvgren








Below is an original Elvgren artwork, this is not a print or copy.





Elvgren would often work from photgraphs taken of his models,
below is the picture that became the artwork.






The photo is attached to the back of the artwork and is part of the set that is the original.






Actual signature, (not a print or copy)







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